Hebert Nunes Flores, Augusto Camillo Tamujo, Tiago Cetolin, João Breno Ribeiro-Alvares, Marcos Amaral Noronha, Bruno Manfredini Baroni, Alessandro Haupenthal
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the association of a novel post-match muscle pain map, named Muscle Pain Code (MPC), with the risk of subsequent time-loss muscle injury in a cohort of professional football (soccer) players. METHODS: The MPC classifies pain in four codes: code 0, ' no pain ;' code 1, ' generalized muscle pain ;' code 2, ' diffused site muscle pain ;' and code 3, ' specific site muscle pain .' Over four consecutive seasons, MPC was collected on the second post-match day and players were followed for occurrence of time-loss muscle injury over the next five days...
April 23, 2024: Physician and Sportsmedicine